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fringe rock daisy, hairy rock-daisy

Habit Subshrubs, 15–30 cm (in rock crevices, stems relatively many, erect to pendulous); sparsely to densely short-hairy, glandular.
Leaves

petioles 2–15 mm;

blades deltate-ovate to ovate-rhombic, 6–23 × 5–24 mm, margins usually entire or serrate to serrate-crenate, sometimes shallow-lobed.

Peduncles

5–25 mm.

Involucres

campanulate.

Ray florets

6–10;

corollas white, sometimes pink tinged, laminae broadly oblong to oblong-elliptic, 3–7 × 1.5–3 mm.

Disc florets

30–40;

corollas yellow, often purple tinged, tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats tubular to tubular-funnelform, 1.2–1.4 mm, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm.

Phyllaries

13–20, linear-lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 4–5.5 × 1–2 mm.

Heads

in corymbiform arrays, 5–7 × 5.5–7 mm.

Cypselae

linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 2–2.8 mm, margins prominently calloused, long-ciliate;

pappi of 2(–3+) barbellulate bristles 1.5–2.5 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales.

2n

= 34.

Perityle ciliata

Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat In rock crevices
Elevation 1100–2500 m (3600–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
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Discussion

Perityle ciliata is found only in the mountains of central Arizona in Apache, Coconino, Gila, Mohave, and Yavapai counties. It appears to be most closely related to P. coronopifolia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 322.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle
Sibling taxa
P. aglossa, P. ajoensis, P. ambrosiifolia, P. angustifolia, P. bisetosa, P. cernua, P. cinerea, P. cochisensis, P. congesta, P. coronopifolia, P. dissecta, P. emoryi, P. fosteri, P. gilensis, P. gracilis, P. huecoensis, P. intricata, P. inyoensis, P. lemmonii, P. lindheimeri, P. megalocephala, P. microglossa, P. parryi, P. quinqueflora, P. rupestris, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. vitreomontana, P. warnockii
Synonyms Laphamia ciliata
Name authority (L. H. Dewey) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 34: 17. (1914)
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